Jörg Vogel

Jörg Vogel ( born April 1, 1967 in Cottbus ) is a German scientist in the field of RNA biology. He is a professor and director of the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology ( IMIB ) at the Medical Faculty of the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg. Vogel studied biochemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Imperial College London. After his PhD (1996-1999), he led in the course of his postdoctoral training research at Uppsala University and was by EMBO Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2004 to 2009, he led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. Since 2009 he is professor at the W3 IMIB and as successor by Jörg Hacker Director of the Institute.

Bird research activities include small, regulatory RNA molecules, RNA sequencing, RNA localization and microRNA - and long non-coding RNA molecules in infected host cells. Among other achievements, he was a pioneer in the application of high-throughput RNA sequencing for the analysis of bacterial transcriptomes. Jörg Vogel, has worked on more than 100 scientific publications, many of which were published in high -ranking journals such as Nature, PNAS and EMBO Journal. Jörg Vogel received the Research Award of the VRAM in 2010 and the Senior Scientist Award 2011 of the VAH. In 2011 he was honored for his extraordinary research with an EMBO membership. 2013 Vogel was elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.